The Truth Behind the Christ Myth: Ancient Origins of the Often Used Legend

What is the
origin of the legend of the Christed Son who was born of a virgin on December
25th? I
am sure you are familiar with his legend which states that he was born in a
manger surrounded by shepherds and then grew up to be One with his Father in
Heaven. And most certainly you recall the sequence of events when this
Christed Son gathered together his important disciples before enduring his
death by torture and his subsequent resurrection. And, finally, there is the
scene at the end of his time on Earth when he prophesied his return and then
ascended into Heaven.

Now for my
question to you: Who amongst you is now mumbling under his or her breath “This
can only be the legend of the Christians’ Jesus Christ”? Well…to the rest
of you, I would like to inform you that many years before the birth of Jesus a
legend identical to his was the accepted life story of the Persian Son of God,
Mithras. And before Mithras, a very similar legend was ascribed to various
other Sons of God worldwide, including the Greek Dionysus, the Egyptian Osiris,
the Sumerian Dammuzi, and the Hindu Murugan. In fact, if we keep going back in
time many thousands of years earlier we will discover that this universal
legend actually began with the Green Man, the Son of a virgin Goddess who was
born, died, and finally resurrected each and every
year.

So how did
this oft-used legend eventually become chosen to be the legend of Jesus? Let us
begin when it was the life story of the ancient Green Man and work forward to
the time of the Christian Son of God.

The Ancient Green Man

During the
Neolithic Age,
which was the era when, as some say, “God was a Woman,” the Goddess and Her
Son, the Green Man, were venerated by people worldwide for annually bringing
forth the Earth’s material abundance. A universal legend about them arose that
began with the annual impregnation of the “virgin” Earth Goddess by the Sun,
the “Father in Heaven,” and the subsequent birth of Her Son, the Green Man.
This important event occurred annually at the time of the Winter Solstice, when
the spirit of the Green Man that had been slumbering underground in the
underworld was shaken back to life. But although his dormant spirit had been
stirred, it was not yet fully awake. This did not occur until a few days later,
on December 25th, when the Sun or Solar Spirit completely reversed its downward
path and took measurable steps along a northerly route.

This was an
important “As Above, So Below” event. It was believed the renewed and
revitalized Solar Spirit above in the Heavens had re-awakened and revitalized
the spirit of his Son below and inside the Earth. And now the future
Green Man could begin his annual gestation period with the womb of his mother,
the virginal Earth, in anticipation of receiving a new, resurrected body in the
spring.

The legend
of the Goddess and Green Man then skips to the Vernal Equinox, when the Green
Man is ready to finally emerge from the womb of his mother. This is the time
when the “male” light equals the “female” darkness, and their male-female
polarity fully unites to produce a fresh infusion of life force to cover and
fertilize the land. The fetal body of the Green Man is now ready to push out of
the womb of his mother Earth in the form of the new tender sprouts of spring.
Soon, his annual resurrection will be complete. This will occur on or around
the same day as our Easter, a modern holiday associated with the much more
recent resurrection of another Son of a virgin.

The legend
of the Green Man then covers the hot summer months, when the Son rapidly
matures as the rapidly maturing vegetative growth of nature. He matures so fast,
in fact, that the Green Man not only becomes One with his Father in Heaven, but
he even mates with and inseminates his own mother. Their co-habitation produces
a second infusion of the fructifying life force on Earth and manifests as a
second proliferation of vegetation and accompanying harvest. Ultimately, this
event would serve to hasten the Green Man’s demise, and soon he would die again
with the decaying vegetation and the falling of leaves of autumn. The cause of
his death? The sacerdotal interpreters of his legend would later assert that it
occurred because of the sins of humanity. It was believed through original sin
humanity had given up not only its own right, but the right of all life on
Earth, to achieve eternal life.

At the close
of the Neolithic Age, when civilizations arose in place of a purely agrarian
culture, the ancient legend of the Goddess and Green Man expanded and took on
religious overtones. It became a standard myth that was annually recited and
dramatically staged in the temples and the mystery schools of the new fledgling
cities, nations and empires. A feature of its evolving storyline was that the
Green Man now took on the additional role of King of the World, which he
governed under the authority of his Earth mother. And in some renditions of the
legend the Son was said to have met his death in the fall at the hands of his
unscrupulous brother or a dark, evil lord.

Ishtar and Tammuz

In the
cities of Meopotamia the Neolithic legend transformed into the story of
the Goddess as Inanna or Ishtar who annually gave birth to a Green Man Son and
future king under the name of Dammuzi or Tammuz. It was said that
Dammuzi/Tammuz grew up to mate with his own mother while also governing the
Earth for her. In order that this ancient legend be reflected in their culture,
the inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent enthroned rulers of their city-states
who were acknowledged to be the embodiments of Dammuzi/Tammuz and the royal
servants of Goddess Inanna/Ishtar.

“Unearthed
in the main room of the palace of Arad. It depicts two almost identical images
of a man with a branch- or sheaf shaped head, one lying down and the other
standing. It may represent the fertility god Tammuz or a similar deity, who
died in summer and was resurrected in spring, Museum of Israel.” (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

This was
also true in Egypt, where the ruling pharaohs were regarded to be incarnations
of Horus, the Son of Goddess Isis, and governed under her authority. But in the
land of Khemit, although the spirit of the incumbent pharaoh was Horus, his
physical body was formed by Seth, the god who governed the crystallization of
energy into physical flesh. Together, Horus and Seth as the “Twins” created and
comprised the physical body of the pharaoh, thus making the Egyptian monarchs
modern representatives of the first and greatest king, Green Man Osiris.

Egyptian
deity, Osiris as Green Man. (Public Domain)

Like the
ancient Green Man, Osiris was similarly said to die and become resurrected
annually in concert with the life and death of nature’s vegetation. Osiris’s
annual resurrection ceremony took place during the annual flood of the Nile
River, when the first tender sprouts of nature initially stuck their fragile
heads above the surface of the Earth.

Semele and Dionysus

One version
of Osiris’s popular Egyptian myth had him annually murdered by his jealous and
evil brother Set each fall. This event was reflected in the legend of Osiris’s
counterpart in Greece, Green Man Dionysus, who was annually slain by his
relatives, the evil Titans, but later resurrected. Similar to Green Man Osiris,
the mother of Dionysus was an Earth Goddess named Semele, meaning “Earth,” and
his father was Zeus, the Father in Heaven.

Dionysus
as the Green Man (Public Domain)

In order to
awaken Dionysus from his slumber at the time of the Winter Solstice, female
representatives of the Goddess would loudly bang pots and pans as they danced
their way in ritual procession to the snowy summit of Mount Parnassus.
And then after receiving his new set of clothes at the following spring
equinox, the Divine Son would cavort in nature along with his own reflection
and alter-ego, Pan, a name meaning “the All,” as in “All of Nature.”

Like Osiris,
Dionysus became the King of the World, and like his Egyptian counterpart,
Dionysus was reputed to have once completely covered the globe while teaching
his diverse subjects the art of making and ritually consuming wine.

A
young Dionysus. (Public Domain)

Wine made
from grapes was recognized as the blood of nature, and since Dionysus was all
of nature, it was his blood. Thus began the ritual of a holy communion through
consuming the body and blood of the Divine Son.

When the
Greek conqueror Alexander the Great arrived in India he was surrounded by
an abundance of rituals and venerated effigies of a Divine Son that reminded
him of his beloved Dionysus. These reminders were so prevalent that that
Alexander and his men were finally compelled to exclaim, “We know your Divine
Son, he is also ours. We call him Dionysus.”

Dionysus
with Thrysus Spear. (Public Domain)

In fact, so
close was the Hindu Divine Son to Dionysus that a story arose that the Greek
Son had himself either been born in India or spent much of his early upbringing
there before going to Greece. A town named Nyssa, which is the same name as
Dionysus’s birth town in the west, was subsequently discovered in India and the
Divine Son of the Greeks and Hindus became synonymous. The name Dionysus
denotes “the God of Nyssa.”

Similar to
his counterpart, the forever young and effeminate Dionysus, the Hindus’ Divine
Son was the pre-pubescent Murugan, meaning the “beautiful.”

His other
names included Sanat Kumara and Karttikeya, a title denoting “Son of the
Pleiades.” Both the Greek Dionysus and the Hindu Karttikeya were intimately
associated with the Seven Sisters, who during their infancy manifested
physically as their nursemaids. And like Dionysus, Karttikeya/Murugan had been
born from the Earth mother, the Hindu Shakti, meaning “Energy,” through mating
with the invisible Father in Heaven, Shiva.

Dionysus
on cross with seven stars of the Pleiades above him. (Public Domain)

Both
Dionysus and Murugan became monarchs of Earth, but they were also recognized as
the greatest of warriors who carried and fought with versions of their favored
weapon, the spear. Dionysus carried the Thrysus Spear and Murugan met his
opponents on the battlefield with his Vel Spear. Both Dionysus and Murugan
eventually became the commanders of great armies of righteous soldiers that
fought for Zeus or Shiva, the Father in Heaven.

Dionysus
with Thrysus Spear. (Public Domain)

Murugan
with Vel Spear (Public Domain)

The Solar Heritage of Mitra

While
Alexander and his men were linking Karttikeya and Dionysus, the counterpart of
these two Divine Sons was being venerated in both India and then Persia. This
was the Christed Son, Mitra. The name Mitra denotes friendship, contracts,
mediation and balance.

The
Solar God, Mitras. (Public Domain)

It refers to
the balance that is created through the union of the universal male-female
polarity. Like Karttikeya and Dionysus, Mitra was a product of the universal
polarity. His mother was of the Earth and his Solar Father in Heaven was known
by the name of Ahura Mazda. Both Murugan and Mitra explicitly displayed their
solar heritage through their distinctive solar flags, as well as by counting
the colorful cock as their most sacred animal. Recognized worldwide as the
quintessential solar animal, the cock daily crows to ensure the rising of the
morning Sun.

Mithra
(left) in a 4th-century investiture sculpture at Taq-e Bostan in western Iran.
(CC BY 2.5)

Mitra was
eventually taken west by the Persians and then became known as Mithras, the
beloved monarch-warrior-general of the Roman Legions. Mitra as Mithras became
identified as the spirit embodied by the many Roman Emperors who sat upon the
throne of the world while proclaiming themselves to be its universal king. By
another name, Mithras was Sol Invictus, an epithet synonymous with the Solar
Father in Heaven. In order to honor his beloved Mithras, the Emperor
Charlemagne chose his day of Sunday, the day of the Sun, to be the holiest day
of the week.

Jesus, incarnation of the Green Man

Now it is
time to draw in the legend of Jesus, believed to be the Christian Son of God,
who remains today one of the last incarnations of the ancient Green Man.
His rise to fame began at the height of Mithras’s popularity, when a future
Roman Soldier named Saul was born in Tarsus of Cilicia, the great bastion of
Mithras worship in the Middle East. From a young age, Saul or Paul, was
indoctrinated into the mysteries of Mithras by the Roman Soldiers, whom he
daily served as their tent maker. While growing up in Tarsus, Paul learned from
these soldiers that Mithras had been born in a manger to a virgin on December
25th and that he was surrounded by shepherds. He learned that Mithras was One
with Ahura Mazda, the Father in Heaven, and had arrived on Earth to do his
Father’s work. And he was informed that after a prolonged battle with
Ahriman, the Evil One, Mithras gathered together 12 devotees for a Last Supper,
during which a communion of wine and bread representing his blood and body were
consumed by all those present. Mithras died soon after this event, but then he
arose from the dead three days later. Then, while preparing for his Ascension,
Mithras prophesied his return at the End of Time for one last battle against
Ahriman.

When Paul
was old enough he was sent to Jerusalem with other Roman Soldiers to guard some
of the Jewish temples in the city. According to the early Christian historian
Epiphanius, Paul was not a Jew when he subsequently arrived in Jerusalem, but
converted to the faith after falling in love with the daughter of a Jewish
priest and seeking her hand in marriage. When his proposal was subsequently
rejected, Paul took out his rage on many Jews, including the Ebionites, the
“Poor Ones,” a Jewish sect that championed the life story of a recently
deceased Jewish holy man named Jeshua ben Joseph. When Paul learned the
entire legend he soon began to associate Jeshua with the Persian Son. His
suspicions of their special link grew stronger when he remembered a Persian
prophecy – that Mithras would return to Earth at the End of Time for one last
battle with Ahriman. According to the temple priests of Jerusalem, the world
was at the end of the Age of Aries and the End of Times had indeed arrived, so
it made perfect sense that Mithras would have incarnated as Jeshua.

The most
convincing event that influenced Paul’s thinking was yet to come, however. This
occurred during his journey to Damascus, when the Roman Soldier was blinded by
an overwhelming light, and thrown off his horse. As an inveterate lover of
Mithras, Paul would have instantly associated the intense light as being a
manifestation of his beloved solar deity. And then, when a voice emerged from
the light calling itself Jeshua and imploring him not to persecute his
followers anymore, Paul knew for certain that Mithras must indeed be synonymous
with Jeshua.

Detail,
The Conversion of St. Paul. Paul and companions are knocked to the ground
during the profound event. (Public Domain)

When Paul
retired from military service soon afterwards he traveled throughout the Middle
East in order to alert the gentiles of his discovery—that the world’s savior
had come and gone—and in the process of his travels he created the new religion
of “Christianity.” Within this new faith Mithras was fully assimilated into
Jesus, who then wielded the life story, titles and characteristics once solely
ascribed to the ancient Persian Son. His new titles included “One with the
Father” and “the One and the Only Son of God.”

Thanks to
Saint Paul and his Christ Myth, the ancient Green Man received a new suit of
clothes. As Jesus, the ancient Green Man could now begin his tenure as one of
the most adored religious figures the world has ever known.

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